Lucinda Fowlkes

Lucinda Fowlkes was hanged, according to a report in The Iowa Plain Dealer in April 1881. The paper said she was the only woman hanged in the Southern States in twenty years. It reported that she trembled violently on the platform before she died.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: the newspaper report.

Source

• The Iowa Plain Dealer, April 28, 1881, page 1 The Iowa Plain Dealer, April 28, 1881